Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
X-Cliff, Great Night Rain
Catalogue no. 143
1926
Sheldrake, NY
Oil on composition board
22 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. (57.8 x 47 cm)
Signed, inscribed, dated lower left:
"E W Dickinson / Sheldrake / 1926"
Inscribed bottom right: "Hamilton Shale"
"E W Dickinson / Sheldrake / 1926"
Inscribed bottom right: "Hamilton Shale"
Scharf Family Collection
Photo: Geoffrey Clements
Notes
Painted in Sheldrake, NY, between July 12 & 16, (journal).
One of the "X Cliff" series. See notes for A CLIFF, SHELDRAKE, 1926. Painting so titled because a
note on the reverse saying "began to rain" was mis-read for an exhibition as "Big Night Rain." ED liked
this so well he added it to the "X Cliff" title. Cut down by ED, January 13, 1970, (journal).
Provenance
Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Private collection
Scharf Family Collection
Exhibition History
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "Big Night Rain".
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Peale Galleries, Philadelphia, Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, April 21–May 29, 1966.
Institute of Contemporary Art and the Weeden Gallery, 1970.
Wellfleet Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Special Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, Painting-Drawing, 1911-1950, June 26–July 5, 1970.
Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts, Barnstable, Massachusetts, Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, July 12–August 1, 1970.
Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, An Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, August 13–24, 1970.
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts. Executive Department of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, A Group of Cape Cod Artists, June 19–?, 1972.
Babcock Galleries, New York, Edwin Dickinson, A Vision of Coast and Sea, May 19–June 29, 1990.
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, Edwin Dickinson, Wallace Putnam and Richard Maury, June 16–July 2, 1992.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "X-Cliff, Great Night Rain, 1926 (Catalogue no. 143)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=143 (accessed on July 29, 2026).